[alsa-devel] [PATCH 2/4] ASoC: s3c24xx 8 bit sound fix

[Mark Brown]

On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 01:33:34PM +0100, Takashi Iwai wrote:

> I still feel a bit uncomfortable with this as it changes the global
> variables.  Maybe better to assign the corresponding fields in the
> local struct.

The global variable is used to tell the DMA driver how to set the
hardware up for the port.  Since the variable is tied to the underlying
hardware channel it's used for there's no real win from duplicating it
into a variable - the hardware it is used to configure can't be shared.